Richard Weait wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:00 -0400, john at netdirect.ca wrote:
>>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-300769.html?tag=nl.e589>> The article suggests:
> "Software companies could be held responsible for the security and
> efficacy of their products, if a new European Commission consumer
> protection proposal becomes law."
>
It depends exactly what they mean by liability, and this can be tricky.
From reading the article summary, it looks like they only 'liability'
being discussed is simple consumer protection. If I buy a piece of
software, and it doesn't work worth crap (and indeed, this has often be
the case) I should be able to bring it back to the store and say "This
is crap and doesn't work, I want my money back." Currently i can't do
that however. (I love how all the stores claim this is because of
'copyright law'. I've yet to see a copyright statute that says I can't
return an unfit product.)